File-cabinet.



PATENTED FEB. 20, 1906.

F. L. G. STRAUBEL.

FILE CABINET.

APPLIoATIoN FILED Ara. '1. 1905.

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FREDERICK L. G. STRAUBEL, OF GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN.

FILE-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 20, 1906.

Application filed April 7, 1905. Serial No. 254,390.

T0 all whom, it Wray con/cern.

Be it known that I, FREDERICK L. G. STRAUBEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Green Bay, in the county of Brown and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in File-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in a cabinet with a receptacle in which sheetmusic, as well as letters and commercial papers, can be filed vertically.

The object of my invention is to provide means for conveniently filing'such sheets or papers and for ready reference to same after having been filed. I attain this object by the mechanism and construction of a cabinet with a vertical filing-receptacle illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a sectional view of the cabinet, eXposing the interior of one side. Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing a different style of receding cover. Fig. 3 is a perspective view with parts cut away to show the interior of the filing-receptacle. Fig. 4 is a sectional front view showing a portion of the cabinet on line A A in Fig, 1, where one side of the cover is pivotally attached to the inner side of the cabinet.

Similar figures refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The front 1 of the filing receptacle is hinged at its lower part, and at its central or upper part at 2 it has pivotally attached thereto, one on each side, the front ends of the connecting-rods 3 3. The receding cover, composed of side pieces 4, one on each side, and lid or cover 5, turns upon pivots which are similarly arranged on both the inner sides of the cabinet, one of said pivots being shown at 6. At 7, a proper distance from and rearward of said pivots at 6, the rear ends of the connecting-rods 3 3 are pivotally attached to the side pieces 4. The length of said connecting-rods and the position of their ends where they are attached to the side pieces 4 and hinged front 1 being properly calculated and adjusted completes the arrangement, whichwill, upon turning back the lid or cover`5, force out the hinged front to a suitable angle, as shown in Fig. 3 and by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, to permit of convenient access to the contents in the receptacle or for the filing of same. Returning the lid or cover to close the top of the filing-receptacle the reverse of the motion produced in opening will draw back the hinged front to a vertical position.

8 is a sliding adjustable follower with its wing or main portion leaning backward at about the same angle as that of the hinged front extending forward when the cabinet is open. Said follower should have a suitable base 9, provided with slides (shown at 10) that will permit of said follower being readily moved backward and forward. Said slides should engage the receptacle-bottom, preferably within a longitudinal opening of said bottom to prevent the follower from tipping backward when the weight of the contents filed lean or bear against it. To hold said follower at any desired point within the scope of the slides, it should be provided with a suitable clutch. In this case it is shown at 11 to be one of the ordinary kind, `which grasps the rod 12 shown within the 1ongitudinal opening of the receptacle-bottom and secured at 13 and 14.

I do not confine myself to the use of any particular kind of clutch or style of slides, as any of those of the ordinary kind in general use for similar purposes may be considered suitable. Neither can I confine myself to any particular style of receptacle-cover, that being adaptable to various forms of construction, while the action it transmits by levers and connecting-rods upon the hinged front might be the same.

In Fig. 2 the cover 5a is shown to have below it the guide-roller 15 and attached to it at 17 the lever 16. The cover 5a being forced to recede within the rear portion of the cabinet, as shown by the dotted lines, carries with it the levers 16, which turning upon the pivots their opposite ends by means of the connecting-rods attached thereto force the hinged front outward the same as in the construction previously described.

I am aware that prior to my invention filing drawers or receptacles with hinged fronts and sliding followers have been in use. I therefore do not claim this, broadly; but

What I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

In a cabinet, a filing-receptacle having a sliding follower, a front hinged at its lower taneously swing outward to an inclined posiedge to the cabinet, members attached to the tion.

cover and pivotally connected to the ends of the cabinet, and links pivotally connecting FREDERICK L' G STRAUBEL' said members and the front, whereby the Witnesses:

cover is adapted to swing inward to the rear EUNICE WooLFoRD, portion of the cabinet and the front to simul- L. O. HANSEN. 

